"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2)

Wordle 1,125 3/6

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STERN
CLOUDY
NERDY

I’m shocked that your second guess wasn’t it. :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,125 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,125 4/6

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HEART
REPLY
DERBY
NERDY

Wordle 1125 5/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 584
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square: 46
:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square: 2
:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square: 1
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SLANT
CHORE
RIPEN
NERVY
NERDY

I thought I was doing well here! After 2, I had it down to INNER, MINER, NERVY, NEWER, PREEN, RIPEN, and RIVEN; I totally overlooked NERDY. RIPEN at 3 narrowed it down to NERVY, or so I thought. Ouch!

Wordle 1,125 4/6* 7/18/2024

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QUITE → I was really hoping for QUIET, though I think it’s been done before. Ah, well. Let’s try a good first word second, shall we?
LEARN → Placing the E is nice, and two consonants gives me much to work with. I’m looking at RE???, and one word just jumped right out at me so I gave it a shot
RENEW → That wasn’t it. If I reverse the N & R, NER??, and I’m enough of a “Weird Al” fan to try
NERDY

Scoredle puts me to shame by finishing in 3, both from my start and from its own. I did a lot of shooting from the hip on this one, so I’m happy on the whole.

Pretty happy with this, considering how foggy my brain is this morning.

Wordle 1,125 3/6

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CRANE
DINER
NERDY

Wordle 1,125 4/6*

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LEAST
NEIGH
NEWER
NERDY

Wordle 1,125 4/6*

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sauna
Night
Nylon
Nerdy

Wordle 1,125 2/6

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READY
NERDY

PERDY was possible, but not likely.

Wordle 1,125 3/6*

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ALONE
STEIN
NERDY

Wordle 1,125 4/6

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PLANT
SNORE
NEWER
NERDY

Struggled all day with this one.

Wordle 1,125 3/6*

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PLATE
DINER
NERDY

Wordle 1,125 4/6*

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IRATE
HOVER
DRECK
NERDY

[spoiler]Wordle 1,126 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

ATONE
DIVER
FEWER
REFER

Wordle 1,125 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
NERDY

Got lucky with this one…I was seeing a lot of words.

Wordle 1,126 4/6

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RATIO
RULES
RENEW
REFER

Wordle 1,126 6/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
FEVER
REFERa tricky one for me today

Wordle 1,126 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Yesterday:
Wordle 1,125 4/6

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ARISE
LONER
RERUN
NERDY

Grrr. I saw NERDY fairly quickly, but disliked it so much that I spent the better part of the day trying to come up with something else. When I finally did, it just confirmed NERDY. Grrrr.

Today:
Wordle 1,126 6/6

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STONE
LAYER
CHUMP
FIBER
DEFER
REFER

Completely floundered on this one. At three I was just blindly trolling for letters. The eliminations did help, but man, what a cluster. Glad to escape alive, at least. Stupid double-double.